Government & Public Sector

We help leading public sector institutions solve their most pressing management challenges, and improve lives for their constituencies.

Public-sector organizations around the world face important questions about how to fulfill their core mission, respond to political and environmental changes, and deliver services to citizens despite reduced budgets. To answer these questions, organizations must undertake rigorous strategic planning—a process that can be difficult, especially in the context of a diverse stakeholder environment with numerous and often divergent interests and priorities.

TomorrowLab helps public institutions build and execute innovation strategies to achieve their policy and organizational goals.

How we help clients

Foresight 360

The ForeSight360 (F360) is a future exploration programme, based on a 20-year future awareness outlook with both national and international stakeholders from various transactional and contextual influencing industries.

The SmartCity360 is a future exploration programme, especially designed for cities, urban planners and -architects, Smart City technology providers and competent governments instances, influenced by a 20-year future awareness outlook.

Client benefits

Better Investment Planning. By providing scenario's with probabilities, threats and opportunities, a company can better provision investment means.

Optimized P&L. A better understanding of where your organisation is heading to, with clear roadmap specifications, allows for more accurate budget planning.

Validated Decision Making. Accurate relevant market insights and expert feedback, allows for making educated decisions, rather then trying endless itterations in the wild.

Retain relevance. With deep understanding its competitive landscapes and upcoming disruptions, a company can prepare itself properly and tailor its offer to what really matters.

Improved Operational Processes. Through a better general understanding of objectives, roadmap milestones and KPI's, a company can optimize its business processes.

Favourable ROI. A company achieves beneficial return-on-investments, by working with actionable insights from industry experts, following a properly defined and supported roadmap.

No disruption on current ongoing activities. While workshops will typically require some time from senior stakeholders, board- or executive commitee, or officials, it generally does not disrupt ongoing core activities. Unless chosen to.

World-class Validation. With the support of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the Worldwide Council for City Data (WCCD), a city can now measure its innovation activities against other similar cities around the world.

Long-term vision with Quick Wins. TomorrowLab assembles local industry partners and global experts, working with the city on a long-term vision, as well as assistanting in conceptualizing and prototyping pilot projects.

Happy customers

If you are to evolve into becoming a smart city, you need a clear vision that reflects your own identity. The city of Aalter has find in TomorrowLab a neutral catalyst who help shape such vision, who can guide through uncertain times, giving actionable insights and conceptual assistance in building pilot projects.

Pieter De Crem — Secretary of State for Foreign Trade — Mayor, City of Aalter

Our beloved city of Genk cares deeply about keeping retail and other businesses accessible to our people. We believe that physical stores will continue to shape the city, and working with TomorrowLab on building future scenario's has allowed us to make the right choices and investments.

Wim Dries, Mayor, City of Genk

How do we, as public transportation company, prepare ourselves for 2035? This was our assignment for TomorrowLab, beginning 2015. What came next was a unique ‘outside-in’ strategy programme which allowed for defining our vision for the future.

Roger Kesteloot, CEO, De Lijn

Our insights

How do you position yourself as a leader in a scenario planning process? How do you and your team come up with a shared vision of the future or strategy? If you apply these 10 tips from TomorrowLab, you will breeze through all strategic conversati...

For Genk, the smart city concept stopped being science fiction a long time ago. For the last eight years, the municipal administration has been working with TomorrowLab on a holistic plan to prepare the city for the future.
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